Originally Posted by
KPer
Don’t you think that’s a big reason why we are overstaffed now? Get ahead of the legacy retirements and weather pronlonged contract negotiations? Bulk of the new hires have been hired 2015-2018. They are starting to throttle back on hiring. Come 2020 all will be off probation and unlikely to leave even if negotiations get nasty. Better sit back and plan on not seeing a new contract until 2025. I can wait.
Yes. Except I think any throttling is due to simple schedule shuffling to deal with upgrades and ETOPS. I'm convinced they'll bank as many pilots as possible.
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